English foreign elements in, 204.
grammar of, its history, 239-249.
its spread over Britain, 197.
modern, 258-265.

nation, 202.

of the Bible, 256.

of the thirteenth century, 254.
of the fourteenth century, 255.
of the sixteenth century, 256.
on the Continent, 194.
periods of, 198-201.

marks which distinguish, 254.
syntax of, changed, 245.
the family to which it belongs, 195.
the group to which it belongs, 195,

196.

vocabulary of, 202-238.

Foreign elements in English, 204.
French (new) words in English, 261.

(Norman), see Norman-French.

German words in English, 262.
Grammar of English, 239-249.

comparatively fixed (since 1485), 258.
First Period, 240.

general view of its history, 243.
Second Period, 241.

short view of its history, 239-243.
Third Period, 242.

Fourth Period, 242.
Greek doublets, 233.
Gutturals, expulsion of, 246-248.

Hebrew words in English, 262.
Hindu words in English, 264.
History of English, landmarks in, 266.
Hungarian words in English, 264.

Indo-European family, 195.
Inflexions in different periods, compared,

253.

loss of, 239, 240.

grammatical result of loss, 248.

changes of, 198.

growth of, 193.

living and dead, 168.

Latin doublets, 230-233.

spoken and written, 203.

written, 193.

Latin contributions and their dates, 209.

Italian words in English, 259.

Keltic element in English, 204-206.

Landmarks in the history of English, Scandinavian element in English, 206-

266.

Language, 193.

Periods of English, 198-201.
Ancient, 199.
Early, 199.

Middle, 200.

Tudor, 201.

Modern, 201.

grammar of the different, 239-249.
marks indicating different, 254.
specimens of different, 250-257.
Persian words in English, 264.
Polynesian words in English, 264.
Portuguese words in English, 264.

Renascence (Revival of Learning), 227.
Russian words in English, 264.

208.

Scientific terms in English, 265.

Spanish words in English, 259.

Specimens of English of different periods,

250-257.

Spoken and written language, 203
Syntax of English, change in, 245.
Synthetic English (=ancient), 239.

Tartar words in English, 264.
Teutonic group, 195.

Tudor English, 201.

Turkish words in English, 264.
Tyndale's English, compared with Anglo- Written language, 193.
and spoken, 203.

Saxon and Wyclif, 251.

Vocabulary of the English language, 202-
238.

Addison, Joseph, 315.
Alfred, 276.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 276.

Arnold, Matthew, 359.
Austen, Jane, 348.

Bacon, Francis, 299.

Bæda (Venerable Bede), 275.

Barbour, John, 285.
Beowulf, 273.

Blake, William, 334.

Browning, Robert, 358.
Browning, Mrs, 357.
Brunanburg, Song of, 275.
Brunne, Robert of, 279.
Brut, 277.

Bunyan, John, 309.
Burke, Edmund, 326.

Burns, Robert, 332.

Butler, Samuel, 304.

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 343.

Cædmon, 274.

Campbell, Thomas, 342.
Carlyle, Thomas, 349.

Caxton, William, 288.
Chatterton, Thomas, 333.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 283.

followers of, 287.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 340.
Collins, William, 321.
Cowper, Wiliam, 329.
Crabbe, George, 331.

Defoe, Daniel, 312.

De Quincey, Thomas, 348.
Dickens, Charles, 361.
Dryden, John, 305.

Welsh and Dutch contrasted, 197.
Words and inflexions in different periods,
compared, 253.

new, in English, 258-265.

Wyclif's English, compared with Tyn-
dale's and Anglo-Saxon, 251.

PART IV.

Eliot, George, 364.

Gibbon, Edward, 327.
Gloucester, Robert of, 279.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 325.
Gower, John, 282.
Gray, Thomas, 320.

Hobbes, Thomas, 308.
Hooker, Richard, 296.

James I. (of Scotland), 287.
Johnson, Samuel, 323.
Jonson, Ben, 295.

Keats, John, 345.

Lamb, Charles, 346.

Landor, Walter Savage, 347.
Langlande, William, 282.
Layamon, 277.

Locke, John, 309.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 354.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 351.
Maldon, Song of the Fight at, 275.
Mandeville, Sir John, 281.
Marlowe, Christopher, 295.
Milton, John, 303.
Moore, Thomas, 342.
More, Sir Thomas, 290.
Morris, William, 360.

Orm's Ormulum, 278.

Pope, Alexander, 317, 319.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 298.
Ruskin, John, 363.

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